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Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency BOD meeting agenda

April 11, 2023

Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency meeting agenda for Oct. 11

For water users in Landers and Flamingo Heights, the Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency’s Board of Directors meets at 6 p.m. tonight (April 11, 2023) to talk about pay raises and succession planning, and to receive some special honors. Based on the Social Security Administration’s cost of living adjustment, directors are expected to approve an 8.7 percent pay raise for the agency’s non-exempt employees and the general manager. Also tonight, the board will consider adding an assistant general…

330 Yucca Valley properties still need to hook up to town’s sewer project

by Mike Lipsitz

April 10, 2023

Yucca Valley property owners in phase one of the sewer project continue to decommission their septic systems. In March, connections to the sewer system continued at a rate of more than one a day, still, 330 properties have yet to be connected placing them in violation of the Regional Water Quality Control Board's septic discharge prohibition. Property owners bear the cost of decommissioning their septic system and connecting to the sewer line at the street, but those costs vary. A…

Wednesday Water Roundup: Joshua Tree Conservation Act, amended budgets

by Mike Lipsitz

April 5, 2023

Wednesday Water Roundup – regular meeting for JBWD, Hi-Desert

Yucca Valley’s Hi-Desert Water District board of directors will meet at 4 p.m. today (April 5, 2023). And down the highway in Joshua Tree, the Joshua Basin Water District’s regular meeting begins promptly at 5:30 p.m. Among the items on today’s Hi-Desert Water District agenda, directors are expected to contract with Washington D.C. lobbyists in hopes of watering down The Western Joshua Tree Conservation Act. The district feels that passage of the Act will afford the tree protections that it…

Special Meeting of Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency tonight, Mar. 28

by Mike Lipsitz

March 28, 2023

At tonight’s (March 28, 2023) 6 p.m. special meeting of the Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency’s Board of Directors, public budget workshop number 2 on fiscal 2023/2024 Draft Operations and Capital Improvement Budget is on the top of the agenda with findings to be presented at budget public workshop number 3. Tonight’s only other action item is consideration of a Cost-of-Living Adjustment of up to five percent to the Board of Directors Per Diem. If the board pursues this increase it would become…

San Bernardino County Supervisors BOD meeting agenda for Tuesday, Mar. 28

by Mike Lipsitz

March 27, 2023

At tomorrow’s (Mar 28) 10 a.m. meeting of County Supervisors in San Bernardino, two expected actions will benefit our Morongo Basin. Among the many items on the consent agenda, supervisors will likely approve a quarter million dollar increase in the law enforcement services contract with Twentynine Palms. The increase and the associated addition of a Sheriff Detective comes in response to law enforcement service levels requested by the city. Also slated for approval is an agreement with Friends…

Native Plant Sale at Joshua Basin Water District on Sunday, Mar. 26

by Mike Lipsitz

March 25, 2023

Cultivating your garden with native plants offers a world of benefits other than natural low water use and drought tolerance. When you pick up native plant specimens at Sunday’s Native Plant Sale at the Joshua Basin Water District, you’ll bring home plants with natural immunities to local pests, and you’ll find that native plants can thrive in the desert’s nutrient-poor soil. The Joshua Basin Water District holds the Spring Native Plant Sale this Sunday, March 26 from 1 to 3 p.m. at the district…

Joshua Basin Water District seeking a member for open board seat

by Mike Lipsitz

March 24, 2023

The Joshua Basin water District Board of Directors has one open seat, and they want you to fill it. The remaining directors will appoint one person to fill the seat from all those who apply, but Joshua Tree residents must apply to be considered. Plans are for the board to interview qualified applicants at the regular April 19 meeting. The successful applicant must be a registered voter who resides in the water district’s division two. More information and an application will be posted at…

Western Joshua Tree denied Federal Protection

by Mike Lipsitz

March 19, 2023

Listen here: While local and regional focus has been on California Fish and Wildlife’s deliberations on permanently listing the western Joshua tree on the state’s endangered species list, the same debate has been going on at the federal level. Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declined to list the iconic tree under the federal Endangered Species Act. Under consideration since 2015, the federal agency had previously rejected a petition to list the species, but following an appeal by…

Joshua Basin Water District remembers Barbara Delph, plans how to fill vacant board seat

by Mike Lipsitz

March 16, 2023

Last night (March 15, 2023) in Joshua Tree, directors at the Joshua Basin Water District made tearful tributes to late director Barbara Delph and discussed how to fill the board seat her death leaves open. The water district’s open director seat will be filled by board appointment. That was the decision made last night. The only other available options were to hold a very costly special election in November, or take no action in which case county supervisors would appoint the new director. Plans…

Wednesday Water Roundup for Mar. 15

by Mike Lipsitz

March 15, 2023

The Hi-Desert Water District board of directors, which serves Yucca Valley, meets at 4 p.m. today (March 15, 2023). And down the highway, in Joshua Tree, the Joshua Basin Water District’s regular meeting begins promptly at 5:30 p.m. In addition to informational items, directors at the Hi-Desert Water District will consider a $100,000 outside contract for the monitoring and reporting of discharge from the wastewater treatment plant. The meeting takes place at the district office on the highway at…

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